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TIL that Sir Patrick Stewart works with organizations that help women & children escape from abusive homes–along with PTSD victims–after growing up in such a home.

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nwXd TIL that there are two libraries in Portugal that use resident bat colonies to protect the books from insects.
KYXQG TIL modern day heart and lung transplants were heralded by a scientist who once surgically added a second head to a dogs body. The dog lived for almost a month.
X0oj TIL Fahrenheit remains the official scale of the United States, Cayman Islands and Belize. That’s just 3 of 196 countries in the world.
kO6Vd TIL that there is an ongoing dispute over ownership of the Budweiser trademark between two beer companies, one from the Czech Republic and one from the United States. The dispute has been ongoing since 1907 and has involved more than 100 court cases around the world.
nXjo TIL that if you fall in a pool of lava, you will not sink into it. the density of lava is three times greater than a human body and between a hundred thousand to a million times more viscous than water